This paper discusses the changing relationship between population genetics, family genealogy and identity. It reports on empirical research with participants in a genetic study who anticipated that personal feedback on the analysis of their donated samples would elucidate aspects of their own family genealogies. The paper also documents how geneticists, building on the practices of offering per...

Oncosomes Á large and small: what are they, where they came from? Dear Editor, Terminology matters. After all this is the basis of the formal code that allows investigators to communicate, compare notes and use computational tools to access molecular databases. If the same term is assigned different or inconsistent meanings, or different terms are used to describe the same entity, communication...

T essay, about work done almost a half century ago, is written as a snippet of autobiography rather than as a technical review of the mathematics of networks of queues. To summarize, interest in jobshop manufacturing led me to a good mathematical subject area. I tried the only technique I knew that seemed applicable to one of the more obvious problems in this area; surprisingly, this technique ...

Diagnostic ultrasound came to Yale in the 1960s and was first developed in Glasgow and London. This story tells us that ultrasound was well-established in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale University School of Medicine in the Yale-New Haven Hospital by 1970. By then it had caught up with the pioneers in New York, Denver, and even Glasgow.